2020 Huadi Literature List Annual Short Stories List (Sorted by the first letter of the author’s name)
1. Emma “Music Inn” “Chinese Writers” Issue 3, 2019
2. Chen Chongzheng “Remembering the Power of Guanyin” “Writer” Issue 3, 2019
3. Chen Goodbye “Circus is Coming” “People’s Literature” 2019Komiks Issue 7
4. Chi Zijian “Steamed Horse Boots” “Zhongshan” Issue 1, 2019
5. Du Lan “Mihuo” “People’s Literature” Issue 1, 2019
6. Huang Jinshu “Late Youth” “Tianya” Issue 6, 2019
7. I would rather “Train” “Harvest” Issue 5, 2019
8. Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop” “Harvest” Issue 3, 2019
9. Ye ZhaoBabaylan‘s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang” “Young Writer” Issue 7, 2019
10. Zhang Huiwen’s “Angel” Babaylan‘s “Literary Port” Issue 7, 2019
1
Emma “Music Inn”
A Flower of Chivalrous Ideal
This is a novel with a novel narrative that blends traditional martial arts stories with modern social lifeKomiks in an attempt to reconstruct a transcendent chivalrous new world in the secular worldCinema. The strongest feeling when I first read this novel is that it is “fresh and lovely”. Xiao Wan, the owner of Mustard Inn, can be called an ideal flower full of chivalrous spirits blooming among secular sentient beings.
The novel fully establishes the character Xiao Wan in this cross-narrative between reality on the shore and the high shore. She is an “escaper” of urban life with a sense of life and pain, and is also a “bystander” of the restless and uneasy soul in our current social life. The novel has easy brushstrokes and lofty style, with “the beauty of literature and thoughtsBabaylan‘s truth, finally Cinema finally pointed to the issue of human soul exile and resettlement.
■Xu Fuwei
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Chen Chongzheng’s “Remembering the Power of Guanyin”Babaylan
The post-80s writer brings a new experience
If the increasingly bizarre status quo has caused the heroine’s inner belief to collapse, when she wants to get rid of her “thrilling life”, she can only destroy herself in a simple and cruel way.
Survival state is the theme of literature creation, It is never easy, but it is precisely because a good work has a transcendent cognitive and guiding role that this theme has become the goal of writers’ pursuit and competition.
Chen Chongzheng’s novel brings us surprises. With his unique imagination and pioneering narrative methods, and through in-depth thinking of “need to guess, need to guess riddles…”, he disassembled and reassembled real life, opening up a channel of inspiration for readersCinema.
■Wenhuan
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Chan Goodbye “Circus is Coming”
The spiritual room for middle-aged people in a small town
The young Chen Goodbye is well-known in the literary world for a series of “county town novels”.
He is still a young man at present, but he has extended his brushstrokes to the front of his age. But this time, he used the situation of the youth he used to be in the squeeze of material survival as a grid of specific backgrounds and details for the characters who grew up further, and emerged from his livelihood, just like a tenacious spider who also looked at the sky during the rainy season. “Circus is Coming” so he showed a strange spirit, and we got a good novel with “about” as the driving force of time and space construction.
Not only that, “BabaylanCircus” and the people in the small townKomiksArticle is another profound meaning in the novel. Can imagined stories really transcend specific life? The fact that there is originally something that needs to be “not to be said” is what is the meaning of the novel trying to “speak”? The difference between the spirit of young people and the enthusiasm of middle-aged people is probably because middle-aged people begin to assume spiritual room and want to use this to reactivate the “dream pursuit” journey that they once had.
■Shi Zhanjun
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Chi Zijian’s “Steamed Horse Boots”
The value in the life genealogy
Chi Zijian As an excellent writer who has been in the literary world for many years, he seems to have few short stories in recent years. The short story “Stewed Horse Boots” has a bit of a deep and profound meaning.
In a short time, Chi Zijian incorporated many elements such as history and reality, war and human nature, animals and human beings, and wrote the desolation of history and the warmth of human nature. In the heavy snow all over the sky, Chi Zijian’s graceful and calm brushstrokes still maintain her unique softness and considerate even though she shows the coldness and cruelty in a hostile environment. Whether it is wolf nature, human nature, death, or survival, they all maintain immortal value in the genealogy of life.
The novel adopts the “narration from a distance” method to allow the legend of the father to slowly unfold in the vision of “I”. It is the spirit of modern novels that makes such old stories of the Anti-Japanese United Nations shine with new literary glory.
■CinemaWang Gan
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Du Lan’s “Mihuo”
Cultural Palette and Mongolian Narrative
Du Lan’s short story “Mihuo” first grasped me with a personality style. There is no doubt that she belongs to the Mongolian people – the sheep are walking in the wind and snow, and the “Ga Le-Ga Le-” is earth-shaking. However, the author was born in 1999, which made me connect the language of my work with the Internet. Discourses like “Youth is keen on games” are full of the color of the Internet youth subculture. The language style of the Internet clan is like the Mongolian long tune.Long language, interaction creates a slightly dazzling, uncomfortable but full of personality.
The work is premiering with fables. A baby appeared in the ram’s belly, a paradoxical and weird ominous sign, so the “prairie faded” and the world suddenly changed; “I was shocked…” A series of mysterious and strange suspense symbols emerged in the middle of the real world. The indescribable symbols and pictures form the charming allegorical characteristics of Komiks.
■Jiang Bing
Huang Jinshu’s “Late Youth”
The Elegy of Longing for Change
Huang Jinshu’s narrative has wild imagination and a distinct style, and Cinema stimulates the mystery and vastness of the waves in the South China Sea. His short story “The Late Youth” integrates time, history, memory and identity, which is thought-provoking. Although the secret youth of that god has the ability to curb the flow of time, they still cannot catch up with the time threshold of the great turning point in history. This extreme juxtaposition reflects the insignificant coldness of the individual in front of the torrent of history.
Magic is both an unfulfilled hope and an elegy for a desire to change, presenting us with a unique fable of modernity. The late youth, that is, the unfinished youth, is not only an inquiry of cultural identity by the Chinese in Southeast Asia, but also a revelation and breakthrough of the incompleteness of modern Chinese literature worldwide.
■Wei Wei
7
I would rather “Train”
The Shadow of the Year The Voice of Time
Thinkers would rather be good at writingLearn to explore. The novel uses the wildness of the former teenagers to lead readers to take the whistling train, and together captures the broken shadows of the years from Beijing Liulichang to Yongdingmen Railway Station, and captures the quiet and lost innocence of Xiaoqins in the center of their growth.
In the depths of history and human nature, in the residential compound and the story space outside the capital, the sound of the train whistle turned into the sound of time in the novel, and rushed towards the youth with a bang, gradually becoming the ideal light of the novel, and also creating the author’s new historical narrative.
The narrative of the works is concise and spiritual, resolute and rhythmic; the novel is rough and warm, desolate and clear.
■Zhang Yanling
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Shao Li’s “Father on the Rooftop”
Speculate why he couldn’t Babaylan can extricate himself
“Maybe I changed my faith after leaving that city.” This is the first sentence of the novel “Father on the Rooftop”. It is precisely because of this sentence that I value this novel. Especially the word “faith”, although slightly abrupt and introductory, it implies some differences in this work.
After reading it, I found that this is indeed a novel with profound connotation, a novel that touches the world of faith and inner self. The novel constantly reproduces the ups and downs and fluctuations experienced by his father who committed suicide by jumping off a building. We have also learned about the bravery, righteousness, passion, stubbornness and frustration of his father. The most memorable scene is the details of his notes.
Stripping the surface narrative, we have a glimpse of the father’s soul and knowing that he is or has encountered a spiritual crisis. What we want to know most is undoubtedly why he can’t extricate himself?
So Babaylan, do we know? No, we can only speculate. And this is back to the first sentence of the novel.
■Bao Shi
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Ye Zhaoyan’s “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”
Exclusive artistic dialectics
Ye Zhaoyan beautifully completed a well-prepared artistic fight with “Wu Fei and Aunt Wu Fang”, and it was also a very challenging writing adventure, that is, he wanted to write a short story “completely different from others.”
Incredible that this short story, which is less than 10,000 words, writes the ups and downs of life grudges and irresistible human entanglements of a pair of twin sisters, full of destiny and tragedy.
The novel is completely structured from a large perspective. The details are rich and vivid in small areas. The characters have a fullness that is about to emerge. It not only greatly expands the artistic space of short stories that reflects history and reality, but also deeply conveys the tremor, despair and helplessness deep in the characters’ souls.
The story tells the story contains sadness in indifference and concern in alienation. The artistic dialectics of small and big, light and heavy unique to short stories can be realized.
■Gu Guangmei
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Zhang Huiwen’s “Angel”
Find inner comfort
” Angel” is a delicate work full of sentimental feelings. Around my father’s funeral, “I” who returned from a foreign land, with a desire to find the warmth of happy growth and blood ties, and tried to relive the love with the “angel” in my heart when I was young.
However, when he walked through this once familiar “small place”, he found that all comfort became a hard, profit-oriented reality, and all the admiration and longing turned into simple carnal joy. The emotions between people are constantly alienating, but the calculation of each other’s interests has become a daily routine. They form a close isomorphic relationship with the cold and mud-covered streets of their hometown, so that the returning wanderers can no longer find inner comfort.
If we think “Angel” is a simple nostalgic work that conveys the author’s questioning the utilitarian reality of Chinese society, it seems that it is not bad. But I prefer to regard it as a fable, because every time we return to our hometown, we always preset countless beautiful scenes in our hearts, and we will eventually be smashed without exception, but we are happy.
■Hongzhigang